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Bible and bedlam : madness, sanism, and New Testament interpretation / Louise J. Lawrence.
Van Pelt Library BS680.P435 L385 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawrence, Louise Joy, 1975- author.
- Series:
- Library of New Testament studies ; 594.
- Library of New Testament studies ; 594
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. New Testamnt--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- People with disabilities in the Bible.
- People with mental disabilities--Religious life.
- People with mental disabilities.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 188 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK ; New York, NY : T&T Clark, 2018.
- Contents:
- Bible and bedlam
- Ivory towers and the banishment of bedlam: reason, right minds, and sane privilege in biblical studies
- The curious incident of a Jew in the night-time: autistry and an encounter with Nicodemus
- Ex-centric women: intersecting marginalities and the madness narratives of Bessie Head, a Canaanite woman and Pythian slave girl
- Gatekeeping the madness of Jesus and Paul: negotiating mythologies of madness in an age of Neoliberalism
- Madness, the affect alien and the Gospel of Mark: critically probing a happiness turn in biblical studies
- Beyond bedlam? Keeping open[ing] minds in biblical interpretation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780567657534
- 0567657531
- OCLC:
- 1013721434
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